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I didn’t hear it, but around 5:12a this morning the space shuttle Discovery made a safe return to Earth; flying several times the speed of sound it passed over California, just north of Los Angeles, to finally settle at Edwards Airforce Base.

“It’s been four years’ training for the STS-114 [shuttle] mission and this is a wonderful moment for all of us to experience,” said Discovery’s commander Eileen Collins standing next to the shuttle on the runway, “We met the test objectives of the space shuttle programme and brought Discovery back in great shape.”

[via The BBC]

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